Good evening, I'm John Yang. With support from Democrats eroding by the day, President

Biden says he's dropping out of the presidential race and endorsing Vice President Kamala

Harris to be his party's nominee in a letter posted on his

account on X he wrote while it has been my intention to seek re-election I

believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to stand down and to focus solely

on fulfilling my duties as president for the remainder of my term.

Vice President Harris issued a statement saying, my intention is to earn and win this nomination. I

he had a statement saying, my intention is to earn and win this nomination. Mr. Biden said he addressed the nation leader this week to more fully explain his decision.

For now, he remains in isolation at his Beach house in Delaware with COVID.

Now, Laura Barone Lopez covers the White House.

Lisa Desjardin covers Congress and the Trump campaign.

And Dominico Montanaro is senior political editor and correspondent

for NPR.

Lisa, Laura rather, I want to begin with you.

How did we get from defiance to standing down?

Ultimately, as the weeks had gone on, John,

since the January 27th debate,

President Biden was losing support every single day.

He was losing support from leaders in Congress.

He was losing support from Democrats in Congress. He was losing

support from Democrats in Congress. He was losing donors. And all of that

combined ultimately made it really untenable for the president to hold his

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